Yvette Cooper has used a visit to the Rob Burrow Centre in Leeds to announce a fast-track care pathway for people with motor neurone disease, the first concrete step in the government’s promised National Care Service. Behind the announcement sits a harder question that will land squarely on commissioners and providers: how do you fast-track a pathway across health, social care and housing when the systems underneath it still barely talk to each other.
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